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by tombert 21d ago
Totally fair. I haven’t done much kernel stuff (outside of very basic toy stuff for QEMU). At the level I work (which is generally server/distributed stuff), I have always used mutexes that are built into the platform. Or more realis
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by tombert 21d ago
> One thing I think Lamport falls short is that his writing is not easy to read and understand Interesting; I actually grew to be a fellow admirer of Lamport primarily because I actually found his papers to be a lot more approachable and
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by tombert 21d ago
I'm not. It seems to be something that affects nearly every person who uses Windows by choice. It's actually kind of a testament to Microsoft's marketing that they can continue to release terrible, broken products and peopl
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by tombert 21d ago
Every time I see one of these articles I will, very briefly, get optimistic that people will move to an operating system that isn't terrible, and then realize that most people will literally just forget about the bullshit they put up w
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by tombert 21d ago
I genuinely had not heard of anyone actually using a spinlock in production code until I started using LMAX Disruptor a few years ago. I was always told that they were an anti-pattern, and I think that generally that is a pretty good rule o
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by tombert 21d ago
I'm saying that if statements that can be converted to switches usually are converted to switches. Something like: if (x == 5) { doSomething() } else if (x == 6) { doSomethingElse() } This can be
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by tombert 22d ago
I thought it might be fun to have a “proper” search engine for my laptop, so I wrote a thing (with my fingers! No Claude Code or codex here!) to scan my home directory and put data into OpenSearch so I can search stuff. [1] For that matter
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by tombert 22d ago
Tangential, but I almost never read assembly [1], but I do read Java bytecode pretty frequently, primarily because doing that can sometimes be a good substitute for benchmarking [2], which I do not enjoy. The thing that never seems to stop
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by tombert 24d ago
I was always very active during class, primarily because I would get bored and smartphones didn't exist yet so the only way I could entertain myself was raising my hand for the teacher all the time. I think because of this I was absorb
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by tombert 24d ago
> I literally had to retake trigonometry, while simultaneously being advanced into pre-calc, because my teacher saw that I aced the exams, but said I had to do the homework. Yeah, I passed the Calc 1 AP exam in my Junior year the first t
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by tombert 24d ago
Tangential, a million years ago I made a YouTube video on how to do the heat equation PDE. I got a YouTube DM from someone offering to pay me a fairly significant sum of money to do their homework for them. I was very broke, so I initiall
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by tombert 24d ago
I was a constant frustration to teachers in high school because I would do well on tests, but I wouldn't do the homework [1]. I'm kind of glad that I didn't know you could pay people to do your homework, since I have to admi
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by tombert 25d ago
Wouldn't this be an argument for people who can take principled stances to do so?
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by tombert 25d ago
Genuine question, since I'm a little out of the loop; why do you say that?
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by tombert 26d ago
Agreed. I will admit that sometimes I do have fun playing the game (certainly a lot more when I was younger), but not often anymore. I feel like I "have" to do it, because there's no such thing as a free lunch, and as such s
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by tombert 26d ago
Sure, a monopoly (as determined by the courts, albeit briefly) and found to be engaging in anti-competitive practices. It wasn't some vague "copyright" thing that made Microsoft do the AARD code, or make it difficult/imp
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by tombert 26d ago
You can have a monopoly without having 100% of the market. Even one of the most famous monopolies, AT&T throughout the 20th century, never had 100% of the market. You know this, so now you're just actively lying. Microsoft was br
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by tombert 26d ago
It’s not that “everything revolves around corporations for me”, it’s that every time I have ever criticized a corporation to a self-proclaimed libertarian, it it always deflected and turned into “well actually this is just the governments f
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by tombert 26d ago
It’s not explicitly about loving corporations, that just appears to be the consequence.
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by tombert 26d ago
My point wasn’t Uganda, my point was, and it still is, that “prosperity” is a relative term. I also have no interest in talking about the minutia of Uganda. I was pointing out that the USSR was “rich” by comparison to some other countries.
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by tombert 27d ago
I agree it’s much more than GDP. That’s kind of my entire point! These terms are complicated , and pretending that these things can be explained trivially by “LOL CORPORATIONS GOOD GOVERNMENT BAD AHAHAHAH” is reductive at best.
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by tombert 27d ago
Even if I concede all of this, and I really don’t, that doesn’t imply that it was a concerted effort to make Microsoft in particular a monopoly, at least not in the same way that they, for example, made AT&T a monopoly. Are you suggesti
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by tombert 27d ago
I should make it clear that I'm not a supporter of what the USSR was, and I'm not trying to apologize for it. I'm just trying to argue that "prosperity" is a relative term and trying to nail down the "why&quot
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by tombert 27d ago
I didn't claim that the USSR was doing well compared to the US. In fact I said the opposite. I said that the USSR was economically more prosperous than Uganda, and was not wrong about that. Prosperity is a relative term, and pointing
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by tombert 27d ago
No, I was making fun of the fact that you haven't seen something and you act like this is compelling evidence of anything.
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by tombert 27d ago
All you did was say that Standard Oil doesn't count as a monopoly because you claim that you need a government intervention to be a monopoly, which is not a definition I have heard and certainly does not fall under colloquial definit
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by tombert 27d ago
> None in any place I've worked. Oh, well, if you don't think that children would be good at making compilers then child labor must not have been a problem. I guess you have a point.
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by tombert 27d ago
"Prosperous" is a relative term; Russia, even during the USSR days, was still significantly more prosperous than Uganda, for example. You can say "yes but they weren't as rich as the United States", but if "bei
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by tombert 27d ago
That seems a bit reductive; I don't even know that you're "wrong", but there are a lot of factors that might have led to the United States' success. We have a lot of natural resources and a lot of our land is rea
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by tombert 1mo ago
Agreed. I mean, there's really no shortage of terrible scenarios that can happen if we cannot assume that 100% of cops are good.

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